Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Since 1888, when the International Council of Women was founded in Washington by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, quinquennials have been held at Rome, London, Berlin, Toronto, Christiania. At the latter capital, in 1920, the sessions were held in the Norwegian Parliament buildings and delegates were received by King Haakon and Queen Maud...
...Italy celebrated the 2,678th birthday of the Eternal City, Rome. The Government having decreed, last year, that the anniversary of the founding of the city of the seven hills should be Italy's Labor Day, instead of May 1, stoppage of work was general all over the country...
...spinning out stories to catch the popular mind and fill his own pocketbook. Long before one meets him, one is sure that he is nothing of the sort. Reading his novels is enough to convince any thinking person of his sincerity. Then, too, how could a man born in Rome, N.Y., who has been both landscape-gardener and preacher, be totally lacking in sincerity? No, Mr. Wright is sincere, and there is no question in my mind that his books have done a lot of good in the world. If there are those who consider them sentimental, and there...
...will disembark at Cherbourg on July 16, where a special train will meet and convey them to Paris for two days of sightseeing in Paris and on the battlefields. From Paris they will journey to Geneva and thence to Mentrens. Milan and Genay three days will be spent in Rome, after which they will visit Venice, Lagano Lacerate intertaken, and Eurich Staffcart, Heidlbetg, Mayence, and Cologne will next be visited, after which the expedition will go through Holland and reach, London on August 15. Remaining in London until the sailing day, the tourists will embark from Southampton...
Italy, however, has for long not been keen on the U. S. money market; so, of course, there could be no arrièrepensée behind Mr. Lament's rhapsodies on the Italian landscape. Moreover, financial rehabilitation and gold currency are terms that have not yet been coined in Rome. Clearly, Mr. Lamont was on a vacation. Yet the impression in Wall Street was to the effect that Mr. Lament was not in Italy simply to admire local sunsets and that he may return to Manhattan with something beside good golf scores to show for his "vacation...